PrefaceIntroduction1. ANN ARBOR SEMINAR (1979)Wide-ranging discussion of osteopathy, the nature of disease, the role and responsibility of the physician, and Dr. Becker’s approach to treatment. Included are discussions of: imprints from disease and trauma, relating to health and not problems, the Silent Partner, the process of surrender, personal attainment, teaching, the large tide, fulcrums, the locked sacrum, and frozen shoulders. 2. USING THE STILLNESS: Recorded Conversation with Anne L. Wales, D.O. (1970’s)Discussion of the use of stillness in a treatment program, stillness as the motive force for securing changes, and the awareness of stillness with the mind and with the hands. 3. A CONCEPT FOR HEALTH, TRAUMA, AND DISEASE and RHYTHMIC BALANCED INTERCHANGE TECHNIQUE (1975)Discussion of the stillness of life and of time, space, and movement as manifestations of life in health as well as in trauma or disease. The concepts of rhythmic balanced interchange, potency, fulcrums, and working with body physiology. A step-by-step description of using rhythmic balanced interchange technique (RBIT) in a treatment program. RBIT as a means to evaluate the state of patients and their response to treatment. Clinical applications. 4. WHAT DO YOU DO? Question and Answer Panel (1988)Describes being guided by the mechanism and using an assessment of the health mechanism. Water bug analogy. Putting the mechanism to work. Protecting yourself. 5. KNOWING TO TREATING (1967)Knowing-to-treating as the ideal direction of flow in osteopathy. Encouragement to look beyond osseous lesions and the mere mobilization of lesions. The osteopathic lesion as an effect and the time factor in diagnosis. Physical, emotional, and mental etiologies of osteopathic lesions. Nervous system response to trauma. Role of the operator. 6. THE SILENT POINT: Recorded Conversation with Donald Becker, M.D. (1962)The difficulty of finding words to describe potency. 7. THE PRIMARY RESPIRATORY MECHANISM: Recorded Conversation with Donald Becker, M.D. (1962)Encouragement to visualize normal function, specifically the mechanism in the newborn. Discussion of the Breath of Life. Relationship between cranial bone and membranous mobility. The manifestation of this mechanism in the extremities with its compensatory patterns and its use in diagnosis. 8.A DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGE: Recorded Conversation with Donald Becker, M.D. (1962)A brief description of the diagnostic reasoning in a case of possible glioma. 9. A POINT OF REFERENCE: Recorded Conversation with Ted Rankin, M.D. (1962)A conversation attempting to describe and understand a "point of stillness" in trauma or disease conditions. Dr. Becker dismisses the possible role of fasciculations. The role of nerve nutrients is discussed. Description of a point of reference from which a total pattern can be seen and affected. Trapped energy within trauma and three types of palpable movement. Approach to treatment. 10. ACUTE AND CHRONIC RESPONSE TO TRAUMA: Recorded Conversation with Donald Becker, M.D. (1966)Discussion of the effects of whiplash on the meninges and how this can lead subacutely to nerve root symptoms. The role of nutritional deficiencies in this pathology. Discussion of the chronic results from trauma, the potential for change, and an approach to treatment. 11. TRAUMA CASES AND THE POWER SOURCE:
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